The price of food for working people has been jacked (regressive taxation) to pay for the future lost revenue from SNAP. They knew it was coming because the election was snatched from the clear majority of people. Big food, big grocery, big pharma, big insurance are each other's #1 investors.

It's really terrifying to think that there might just be somebody pulling the strings to intentionally make people sick, but then. Our healthcare is for profit so. Of course there is.

RFKjr and Mark Ruberio are committing crimes against humanity.

So are Stephen Miller and Tom Homan.

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Every day way over $300 million of that money going to private military contractors is "unaccounted for".

Republicans are for BIG government (military) and no domestic spending

“Every day, USDA spends nearly $300 million on SNAP. $300 million!” Egad! That’s almost ninety cents - cents with a ‘c’ - taken out of every American’s pocket just to prevent malnutrition! Imagine what miracles of consumption we could contribute to the economy every day with those extra pennies!

I don’t want to help pay for this.

Do they care

Melanie’s a MAGAt monster.

"We're never gonna take food out of hungry kids mouths but... ...oh, wait. Yes, we are."

Poverty is a policy choice

Indeed. All we have to do is stop the rich from stealing from the poor.

It is. Illegals and their families use government welfare programs which lessen benefits intended for established American minorities. Black AMERICANS want more ICE.

The amount paid in benefits is way smaller than the amount given in government subsidies to corporations. Other vulnerable people are not your enemies.

I'm not a fan of big business but we all saw what happened in NYC last year. Migrants getting free hotels and food, while blacks were told there was no money left in the budget.

It was a political choice, not a financial one. I suspect made at state rather than federal level. We had the same in the UK - govt stopped processing asylum claims to make migrants into a political football. A stasi with 20x the budget is not going to solve anything.

"There is no money for this" definitely doesn't work at federal level and generally doesn't work at state level. It's a question of priorities.

Every recipient we cut off SNAP is a lost customer to a grocery store, less work for truck drivers, and less profit for farmers. SNAP is run by the Agriculture Department and was created by farm state Republicans to prevent a drop in demand for food products. It's an agribusiness subsidy first.

Does she know it's our taxpayer money and it should be helping us not everyone else except we the people.

In the case of the Trump Republican bill that just passed it is an amoral and immoral abomination and assault on everything we ought to hold dear on the 4th of July. It is a direct attack on the founding principles of this country on every level.

Is that photograph Lewis?

I prefer the name "Alligator Auschwitz".

Flauschwitz.

I guess I'm a little dense. "Flauschwitz"?

It’s in Florida so…..

The Oven in the Everglades

This is sick.

Truth

You can’t have moral priorities when you have no morals #TrumpRacistRapistFascistTraitor

"They did in fact take money from the mouths of hungry children."

well said, Mr. Takei. well said indeed.

That money gets paid to farmers. The SNAP program doesn’t survive because of its assistance to the poor. SNAP is part of the Farm bill and it survives because the US agricultural system is closely managed and heavily funded by the govt. Just don’t call it socialism.

'Don't tell me your values. Show me your budget and I will tell you your values!'

Has justice become a false reality?

Thievery is the priority They abuse power to push the stocks

George, thank you so much for everything you do. You are a prime example of everything that is good and decent about America. (P.s. my name isn't Sam, it's Dave and I'm a white middle aged Star Trek and Quincy fan from Canada)

Always a good time to quote the last Republican POTUS to have fought fascism and win.

Yup,the difference is Eisenhower had a soul and cared about that, the "modern" GOP does not care about anyone who's not rich.

Yeah, that $146 I get PER MONTH as a low income senior (that I immediately put back into the economy by buying groceries!) is really a detriment to the nation. $330million to feed people versus $1.6billion to create an American Gestapo? I know where I prefer my taxes be spent.

In 2024, SNAP cost $100.3B. Per day, that's $27.4M. So the original post is off by a factor of 11.

Yep the richest nation on the planet is going to prioritize saving millions for the wealthiest people and screw the less fortunate …. all over the world! Morality is dead!

This is so wrong for where we want to progress in our society including the pursuit of happiness! No one should be taking us backwards in time. Let's keep looking for equal healthcare for all. Our system is quite complicated bc people wanted private insurance options. It should be more efficient.

This is called performative moral outrage. military spending doesn’t trigger it the same way as feeding children.

Every time I read anybody talk about SNAP benefits, I think of it as a giveaway to farmers (same with USAID) Rhetorically, they would never be able to get angry about giving subsidies to farmers. It's so ridiculous Every "government handout" has two sides. I wonder if every other example is useful

Medicaid cuts? You're no longer funding hardworking doctors and long term care facilities, decimating massive numbers of jobs. Green energy cuts? You're directly increasing the price of electricity, and also killing a whole sector again. Child tax credit? Parents will have fewer kids, which is bad

Arguing rhetorically this way does concede the Overton Window of our values, where we argue about econ instead of making sure that people don't die. And realistically I'm not actually sure these convince people, although caring for people hasn't either.

I'd like to see more variety in these types of arguments. The doom/gloom over the BBB has kept its negative impact to the direct, obvious, but limited categories, instead of all the downstream negative effects. Already tens of millions will suffer. But everyone will be hurt in many many more ways.

Wait until she finds out that SNAP dollars spent help keep the economy moving. Perishables especially.

It’s been that way with both D or R

Military contractors and their workers are lazy as hell for the most part. Their slogan,"Hide and seek for 1,000.00 a week", is blatant. Military Commissaries especially.

$170 Billion for ICE www.npr.org/2025/07/03/g...

It's not going to go to "deportation". It will go to genocide. They're going to murder people out in the open, because they think they can get away with it.

Yup

That's $1 per person. Yeah, I wouldn't mind paying $2 a day out of a livable income if it means less starvation

I learned it as “a budget is a statement of values.”

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Woe to you who passed #Trump's evil "One Big [BRUTAL] Bill" legislation. It will make misery for the poor, rob people of dignity, exploit the defenseless, and take advantage of the homeless. #Isaiah 10:1

I'd rather my tax dollars feed hungry people instead of feeding an insane military buildup or, more likely, feeding the unsatiable greed of a demented $h!tgibbon.

Oh, that "but" at the end.

also...300 million is NOTHING when it comes to our shared tax burden, there are 340 million people in this country. That means we feed the hungry for roughly $0.88 per day. It's monstrous to call that something we can't afford.

300 million is what's budgeted for Trump's golf outings, also.

Sadly that is only about half of the military budget, which is still three times higher than the #2 country! For people not under attack or at war, isn't it time to devote money to things that matter

And for that $300 million, we see $320million in economic activity and taxes paid on that

I believe the fiscal multiplier for income benefits is $1.74 for every $1 increase. You're significantly short.

More like $525 million then, even better

Did it from memory and late night mathing. So you come up with the right number

Sorry 1.64. I was going from memory too! Here's an oldish article about it. Look at the bit about cutting taxes on the rich. anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com/2012/10/what...

Ok, so let’s settle in somewhere around $500 million in economic activity for the $300 million ppl are complaining about spending (I think Robert Reich has an explainer about this too) Every dollar in benefits then gets spent at a local store, which buys from farmers and producers, and pays…

…employees who then have money to spend. And all that activity gets taxed along the way, so some comes right back It is direct stimulus that is a moral and fiscal good for everyone

Guess the farmers losing their cheap labor, now revenue from the Snap program. What do you think this is going to the farmers? Or is there a large Farm Aid sum of money in this bill? Trump just really knows how to thank his supporters. Yes, we will be hit with higher prices for food.

So far the farmers, who are mostly millionaires, received billions in bail out money every year. Also, most of them voted for trump.

The big ones do, but not the small ones. Yep, most of them voted for him, this is how he thanks them

The small farm owners here in Wisconsin all voted for Trump.

But? But what? You’re going to prevent the food from getting into kids mouths now?

Has this woman not ever heard of the dark budget? Trillions.

well said

And 10.5 million given to Israel every single day so they can buy WMD's to kill children and have free Universal health care on our taxpayers labor!

Deadly MAGA Voter's And Congress This Must End Now

Rollins is a former Cotton Bowl Queen—and cotton is the only thing that cretin has between her ears.

And maga morals suuuuuck

But... But WHAT? That's EXACTLY what her cult just did.

She means white kids as per orders from mafia Don.

That word "never"... THEY ARE.

Yes, but "we have to support the troops." ... Supporting poor people, including children, isn't seen as nearly as "sexy," even though it is those poor kids who will grow up to the future "troops." The private contractors can also afford kickbacks. The poor people can not.

That’s less than a dollar a day per person in the US…. to feed people. Not to buy them yachts, just to feed them. If you would not pay one dollar per day to end hunger in America, then you are a shitty person, and I don’t care about the opinions of shitty people.

It's literally 1.5% of federal spending. Find me a single household that spends so little of their budget on food.

This is what's so maddening about it. What we spend on SNAP is like a fraction of a fraction of what we spend on billionaire subsidies and war.

Wait until the farmers find out. Where does she think that money is spent?

They voted for him... they're waiting for their SECOND bailout!

What am I supposed to do with that?

Farmers are, for whatever reason, eating the manure of this administration instead of putting it to good use.

Wait ‘til she finds out we’re spending $3 billion/day to service our national debt— and it will soon be much worse. 🙆🏻‍♂️🚩

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That’s a big “ but…” and I cannot lie

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Who is getting filthy rich from all that government spending on SNAP?

And how much money do we give Israel every day?

Like Rollins gives a shit about money Just gets off on hurting people they don't know

Cutting a budget will do nothing to remove fraud. The fraudsters will still get their money, guaranteed. You have to spend money to catch them if they're not already caught.

And they are taking food out of kids' mouths, literally. Kicking kids off free lunch programs right now.

“We’re never going to take food from hungry kid’s mouths…”

The current budget for the us military is a trillion now. From what im aware of, the shit bill they just passed gives i.c.e 168 billion. So...what are our priorities really?

And where there's no morals, there's no budget to help the less fortunate in society...

GOP deplorables in action..its sickening

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Well, it looks like kids are already going hungry! Stupid and incompetent!

Their own militia. Great....🙄

Brooke Rollins is making $$$ of selling and leasing public lands. She’s aspiring to be Kristi Noem.

So, less than $1 per person per day? Less than $365 a year?

We’re never going to take food out of children’s mouths. Unless we think the food isn’t necessary. Or we’d rather spend it on hats. Or cats. Or cats in hats.

If she does find out, she won't care.

They are telling us so loud & clear who they are, and what their values are Time for some careful listening from us? Time to believe them? Which politicians actually reflect our own values? Time to set our own boundaries with where we'll place energy politically. Time to focus where it's good

Who Murder starving Palistinians begging for food in Gaza so tRUMP can ethnic cleanse the humans to make His beach project. Think about that !

High velocity money that goes right back into the community,

Instead of being hoarded in some fat arsehole's bank account...

Trump isn't just creating some everyday, run of the mill, dictatorship. He's creating the world's largest and best funded dictatorship in history. The scope of misery he will visit upon the American people, Canada and the rest of the world is unprecedented, stopping him should be the only priority

$300 million a day with a population of 330 million people shouldn't we all be sitting pretty good after a week or even one day getting that kind of money.

Well they wil finally see trickle down work, the businesses that snap money was used at will see that trickle down hit them and that trickle is less and less money being spent at their stores. I bet they didn’t see that coming.

The small businesses in DC are already being hit hard by the 1000s of govt employees DOGE laid off (fired) that they depended on for their survival.

First, they'd need morals🤦🏻‍♀️

And what? $50 Million from the military budget is going to be spent on retrofitting TACO Trump's used jet from Qatar!

They just voted to take food out of hungry kids’ mouths, and they celebrated doing so.

A little less than we give Israel every day...if I remember correctly.

Time for a national strike and shut off their money close the country for business. They can't keep sending troops if they do not have any money coming in and the dollar will drop like a rock in water the stock market will tank in no time flat. Time to make it on our terms not theirs.

Don't say we can't do it we did during covid.

Priorities and any time I hear "but" I know any prior remark is going to be a lie.

$300 million for his golf trips while folks are go hungry and sick. Not my America.

The "but" says it all...

Also, it's a f**g $1 per day per person.

We give Israel 4 Billion a year so they have universal health care and abortions.

It mostly definitely does. We can see that the people don’t matter. The evil is the creator of the document that will come to the end when the truth comes out. The true and the righteous shall prevail in the end. We the people shall overcome. 💜🕊️

Maybe rewrite phrase to, "have to hold a bake sale to fund ICE".

How could there be any buts about it?

I have a question: in the country where over half a budget is given to MIC, - WHY do we have so much poverty?

Their pacs make it happen

Let's say your stance is that $300M on SNAP is too much. The solution you should be looking for is how to feed people without spending so much money. "We need to find a more economic way to support people" is different than "supporting people costs too much"

Wait until Rollins finds out that every weekend that #FelonTraitorTrump golfs, he wastes about $30 million dollars in taxpayers money.

Republicans have no Decency or Moral Values and they prove it daily

SNAP dollars don't just go away. They come BACK to the farmers and other entities who actually produce the items purchased w SNAP benefits. Eliminating $300M in sales for American farmers doesn't seem like a good plan. 🤷

Trumptards always fail to see the REST of the equation. USAID spent a lot of money, sure, but about $2B a year was spent buying goods from AMERICAN producers. Peanuts, corn, wheat, and on and on but trumptards really didn't like that so they killed it. Fine. Let's burn it all down.

USAID also softened the US's image in the world, so the rest of us wouldn't only see you as soldiers come to kill people. You can't put an exact monetary value on that, but it still helps the individual USAmerican businessman earn money abroad.

Rollins approaches Boebart and Mace level stupidity with regularity.

I don't want to make kids starve BUT... But? WTF is the but in there?

Even worse, she says we're never going to take food from hungry kids ... but ... and to me what should follow is... THEY JUST DID!

As someone who is involved in food sustainability programming, $300m/yr for an entire country is a steal of a deal, and consequently keeps other social costs - like medical and educational - lower. Thank you for playing though, Brooke.

Daily, not yearly.

Warning: Do not read or write words before ingesting the appropriate amount of coffee. Thanks for the catch!

We've all done it, and right now we're all kinda on edge, I'm not judging.

As odious as this is, we never hear donor drunk Democrats talking about military spending. How many US lives have the trillions of bucks spent on national defense actually saved? UHC would be national defense on an individual basis and should come out of the national defense budget.

The dirty American secret is that national defense money is to protect the assets of the rich, not to save American lives. If it weren't, the rich wouldn't support it, similar to how they refuse to support UHC.

I want to know what the ellipsis is hiding. Not that it's very well hidden. Just a bit curious as to the specific variety of awfulness that would be inserted.

And plenty of SNAP benefits go to military families. The pay for GIs is so low that they can’t afford food for their children. Tricare pays for most medical bills (especially at military hospitals), but there’s a big gap to feed kids.

Horrid people

Rollins is that dumb.

And the main business (and priority) of the US is death and killing machines.

Everything that promotes health or life is a drop in the bucket compared to funding for destruction and death

Isn't SNAP like 6 cents per year for the taxpayer?

And how much to Israel?

She sounds like a cheapskate, that feeding children is not her a problem. Well, since they closed USAID, blocked Food banks, and now ripped away SNAP, that may be true. I’d rather my taxes go to feed children than fund a terror campaign.

She says ‘never’, but she means ‘whenever’ . Vocabulary issues need work.

Seems domination is a big priority 🤔

The “but…” at the end here does all the work required.

Always waiting on the "but."

Very similar to the "I'm not racist, but..."

Rollins: "We're never gonna take food out of hungry kids' mouths... but... " Allow me to finish that sentence... ... but... you did. 🤬

Yup

Yep!

Is that true? 1.3 billion USD goes to private mil contractors every day? Holy shit.

Or that we spend $1 Billion every week just for maintenance of thousands of nuclear warheads that could NEVER possibly be used in ANY scenario. We'd all be long gone before we could launch 100.

Don't say "NEVER possibly be used". Never sanely used perhaps. It might be best is we were all gone after the first 100 landed but billions would die over a much longer time from radiation poisoning of a one-hour nuclear confrontation between super powers. www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

And global nuclear winter / drought lasting for 10 years... result of intense fireballs / conflagrations lofting black carbon particles high above weather systems.

Anytime you place dollar value over human values, you are manifesting evil. Don't.

Social security, Medicare and Medicaid made up nearly 44% of overall federal spending in 2024, while SNAP made up about 1.5%. These people are unserious and ignorant.

$2 Billion a day. That's the US military budget. $2,000 Million per day. Spent on what, you might ask...? It seems no-one really knows for sure. But you can be sure they're all well-fed 🙄

Not “contractors”, they are “mercenaries”

Everything before the but is a lie.

1.3 billion a day? Really? That is insane!

Our federal budget is so vast that the numbers are always shocking. I would love to see it communicated as percentages. Tell me what percentage of tax dollars go to SNAP, or Medicaid, or military, or corporate subsidies. I would find that much more informative.

Dear Aaron, the cost of dropping a few bombs on Iran exceeded $200 million. The total cost is likely double that amount. So, what about your "but,"

And it's INCREDIBLY wasteful. The majority of it goes to weapons auctions. Yeah, auctions. While soldiers get shit healthcare, 1-ply toilet paper and eat food rejected from prisons for quality.

$300million? So she's upset that every American puts in less than 90 cents per day to ensure their fellow Americans don't go hungry? We all know that they'd be fine with pennies per day if they could ensure that only white evangelical conservatives got SNAP. As usual, it's about bigotry with them.

U.S. farmers are insanely productive. They produce surpluses. A lot of them. Unless government does something, they drive a whole bunch of farmers broke. By definition, there are no buyers for a surplus. Some people smarter than today's crop figured out the solution: Food 4 Peace, Snap, USAID, etc.

Also doesn't help when a president gets in a pissing match with large customers like China. US farmers keep facing more competition from countries like Brazil

Yeah, but then the get foreclosed on and JD Vance's company can buy up their property for pennies in the dollar...

In six months 47 will support an assistance program for farmers. He tariffed them last term and then bailed them out when he could do so quietly. That's why they voted for him.

But what?

Or in this case, amoral ones

GOP have no morals.

No spine or testicles either 🤬

None of the above.

It's a fuzzy mix of amorality, immorality, and cartoonish evil.

There’s nothing moral about this country anymore. There are some wonderful people, but there are some horrible people as well and right now the dregs of society are in charge

Average SNAP recipient gets $187 per month. If a SNAP recipient works a minimum wage job, 40 hours per week - $187/160 = $1.17. If they work two jobs, for more than 40 hours a week, that number gets smaller. Pay people enough to live.

I know. What's wrong with these people. Nevermind I know the answer to that 🤡🤡🤡🤡

In her maga groomed excuse for a brain, 300 is biglyer than 1.3. Shame she doesn't know what the rest of the words mean.

SNAP is doubly efficient. Not only does it feed hungry people, but, it supports American farmers, in the process.

And the sick fucker took money from school kids too. I hope he burns in hell stat. Mcconnel too!

Wait until she finds out $300M was budgeted to pay for Trump’s golf outings.

SNAP exists so that employers don't have to pay a living wage, and now MAGA isn't going to subsidize employers or force them to raise wages. People are going to starve.

Crime will rise, trump will declare military rule.

The poor will be punished for starving and needing to resort to crime by the real crooks.

Yup, as I've said before this is the "Murder the Poor Bill"...

This doesn't get said often enough.

That’s right, this is literally taking food out of the mouths of Walmart employees.

The revolt is 3 missed meals away

Exactly, this. Listening to your children cry from hunger has an effect on people.

And I am concerned that the next step will be to "allow" people to sell themselves into indentured servitude.